Authors whose first name starts with M, page 2 of 9

Malcolm Mackay, born on 1 September 1981 in Stornoway on the Isle of Lewis, writes Scottish crime fiction. The Glasgow Underworld books and the Saviors books make up nine catalogued titles, from The Necessary Death of Lewis Winter (2013) to Saviors (2019), with gangsters, organised crime and hired killers throughout. How a Gunman Says Goodbye took the Deanston Scottish Crime Book of the Year in 2013. Nothing has followed since 2019.

Malla Nunn, born in 1963, is a Swaziland-born Australian screenwriter, film director and author. The Detective Emmanuel Cooper mysteries are set in South Africa and open with A Beautiful Place to Die (2008), followed by Let The Dead Lie (2010), Blessed Are the Dead (2012) and Present Darkness (2013). Nunn then turned to young adult fiction with the award-winning When the Ground Is Hard (2019) and Sugar Town Queens (2021). Six books are catalogued in all.

159 catalogued books stand under Mallory Monroe's name, published from Romancing the Bulldog (2011) to Trina Gabrini (2026). The Gabrini and Sinatra families run through most of them: Reno Gabrini/Mob Boss, Sal Gabrini, Tommy Gabrini, Mick Sinatra, Teddy Sinatra, Amelia Sinatra and the Sinatras of Jericho County. Alex Drakos, The President's Girlfriend, Rags to Romance, Trevor Reese and Monk Paletti are the other series. Contemporary romance meets organized crime, and interracial relationships between African American and Italian American characters recur as a subject.

Historical romance is the register of Manda Collins's catalogue, whose subjects list nobility, aristocracy, England, betrothal, horse racing, and social life and customs. The 26 catalogued books run from How to Dance with a Duke (2012) to Ghost Me, Maybe (2026), with How to Romance a Rake (2012), Why Dukes Say I Do (2013), Why Earls Fall in Love (2014) and A Good Rake is Hard to Find (2015) in between. Wicked Widows, A Lady's Guide, Studies In Scandal, Ugly Ducklings, Lords of Anarchy and A Wallflower's Guide are the series credited to Collins.

Mandy Baggot writes contemporary romance, often with a holiday setting. Greece, London and New York supply the backdrops across titles including One Wish in Manhattan (2015), One Greek Sunrise and That First French Summer. Many of the books carry two titles, one for each market. Thirty-two catalogued works run from 2008 to Winter With You (2026), and the Freya Johnson series sits inside them.

Paranormal romance and cozy paranormal mysteries are published under the name Mandy M. Roth, an American novelist with New York Times and USA Today list credits; erotic romance appears under the pen name Reagan Hawk. The catalogue records 114 books starting with Daughter of Darkness and Immortal Ops in 2004. Rain with a Chance of Deer is dated 2026, and Midsummer with a Chance of Night is scheduled for 2027. Immortal Ops, PSI-Ops, Grimm Cove, King of Prey and Beast Masters are among the series.

Mandy Robotham writes historical fiction set in the Second World War, much of it in Germany. The catalogue holds 11 books published between 2018 and 2026, opening with A Woman of War (2018), also published as The German Midwife, and reaching The Spy and the Snake (2026). The Secret Messenger (2019), The Berlin Girl (2020), The Girl Behind the Wall (2021), The Resistance Girl (2022) and The War Pianist (2023) follow. Mrs Spy (2025) names the one series catalogued, and Robotham published The Scandalous Life of Ruby Devereaux (2024) as M.J. Robotham.

Manning Coles was two people: Adelaide Frances Oke Manning (1891-1959) and Cyril Henry Coles (1899-1965), neighbours in East Meon, Hampshire, who wrote spy thrillers together from 1940 into the early 1960s. Coles served with British Intelligence in both World Wars and Manning worked at the War Office in the first. Thomas Elphinstone Hambledon, a Foreign Office man, carries 26 of the books, and a second series follows Charles and James Latimer. Drink to Yesterday (1940) opens a catalogue of 29 titles, with ghosts turning up in part of the later work.

Mara Rutherford writes young adult fantasy. Crown of Coral and Pearl (2019) and Kingdom of Sea and Stone (2020) form her one duology; Luminous, The Poison Season, A Multitude of Dreams, A Curious Kind of Magic and My Unfamiliar (2026) stand alone. Seven books span 2019 to 2026.

Witches and cozy mystery run through all twelve of Mara Webb's series: Hallow Haven Witch Mysteries, Wicked Witches of Pendle Island, Spellcaster Creek and Vanish Valley, Seaspray Isle Witch Mysteries, English Enchantment Witch Mysteries, Wildes Witches, Compass Cove Cozy Mysteries, Paws and Poltergeists, Cordelia Rose Paranormal Mysteries, Raven Bay Mysteries and Strife After Death. Webb's 104 catalogued books open with Over the Broomstick (2019) and reach The Dough Must Go On (2026), at roughly a dozen a year. Broom puns carry many of the early titles.

Marc Alan Edelheit writes military fantasy, starting with Stiger's Tigers (2015) and the Chronicles of an Imperial Legionary Officer. The Karus Saga, Tales of the Seventh, the Eli Chronicles, Way of Legend, Born of Ash and Command Decision extend the catalogue to 38 titles, reaching Off Indigo Station (2026). Edelheit also published a guide to indie publishing, Every Writer's Dream (2019).

Marc Brown

47 books• 1 series

Marc Brown, born 25 November 1946, is an American children's author and illustrator who writes and draws the Arthur books. The Arthur series became an animated television show broadcast on PBS Kids. The catalogue lists 47 books by Marc Brown between 1996 and 2009, starting with Arthur's Reading Race (1996) and ending with Arthur's Reading Trick (2009). Arthur, a fictitious aardvark, heads the subject records, alongside schools, friendship, brothers and sisters, and Spanish language editions.

Marc Cameron, born 1961, is an American novelist of action adventure fiction. Cameron writes the Jericho Quinn and Arliss Cutter series and has written Jack Ryan novels set in the Ryanverse built on Tom Clancy's characters. The 26 catalogued books span 2005 to 2026. The earliest, Hard Road to Heaven (2005) and The Hell Riders (2006), appeared as Mark Henry. Later titles include National Security (2011) and Act of Terror (2012), and Backtrack (2026) is the newest.

Marcel Proust

28 books• 2 series

Marcel Proust (1871-1922) was a French novelist, critic and essayist. In Search of Lost Time, published in seven volumes between 1913 and 1927 and running to roughly 1.25 million words, is the work he is known for; critics rank him among the most influential novelists of the twentieth century. Proust was born in the Auteuil quarter of Paris to a wealthy family, his father Adrien a pathologist and epidemiologist. The catalogue here holds 28 titles, from Pleasures and Days (1896) to the 2021 collection The Mysterious Correspondent.

Marci Bolden has 19 catalogued books, published between 2015 and 2021. The Road Leads Back, The Forgotten Path and Friends Without Benefits all appeared in 2015, and The Breaking Point (2021) closes the run. Four series carry the name: Stonehill, the Women of HEARTS, A Life Without Water and Chammont Point. The catalogue is dormant.

Marcia Clark writes legal thrillers set in Los Angeles. Clark was the lead prosecutor in the O. J. Simpson murder case and has also worked as a television correspondent and producer. Her two series are Rachel Knight and Samantha Brinkman, and her 13 catalogued books run from Without a Doubt (1997) to Trial by Ambush (2024), taking in Guilt by Association (2011), Killer Ambition (2013), The Competition (2014), Blood Defense (2016) and Moral Defense (2016). Public prosecutors, criminal defence lawyers and murder investigation are the standing subjects. Clark is actively publishing.

Marcia Muller, born September 28, 1944 in Detroit, is an American mystery and thriller author who created the female private detective Sharon McCone. Vanishing Point won the Shamus Award for Best P.I. Novel after four earlier nominations, and Mystery Writers of America named Muller a Grand Master in 2005. Muller studied English at the University of Michigan and worked at Sunset magazine. Muller is married to Bill Pronzini, a collaborator on several novels. The catalogue lists 74 books, including Edwin of the Iron Shoes (1977) and Circle in the Water (2024).

Marcia Willett (1945-2022) was a British writer of women's fiction who also published as Willa Marsh. The catalogue holds 38 titles published between 1995 and 2022, opening with A Friend of the Family (1995) and The Courtyard (1995) and closing with Christmas at the Keep (2022). The Chadwick Family Chronicles is Willett's one continuing series; the rest are standalone novels and novellas. Family life, family secrets, brothers and sisters, widows and the county of Cornwall recur across the subjects.

Marcie R. Rendon

8 books• 2 series

Marcie R. Rendon, born in 1952, is a Native American playwright, poet, novelist and community arts activist based in Minneapolis, and an enrolled member of the White Earth Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe. The Cash Blackbear crime series opens with Murder on the Red River (2017), which took the 2018 Pinckley Prize for Debut Crime Fiction; Girl Gone Missing (2019) was shortlisted for the 2020 Sue Grafton Memorial Award, and Sinister Graves (2022) and Broken Fields (2025) follow. Rendon also wrote nonfiction for children, among it Farmer's Market: Families Working Together (2001), and founded Raving Native Productions theater. The catalogue holds 8 books dated 1996 to 2025.

Marco Vichi is an Italian novelist and short story writer, born in Florence in 1957 and living in the Chianti hills. The Inspector Bordelli novels are the best known work: police procedurals set in 1960s Italy and translated into English by Stephen Sartarelli. Seven titles are catalogued, from Perché dollari? (2005) through Death in August (2011), Death and the Olive Grove (2012), Death in Sardinia (2012), Death in Florence (2013) and Death in the Tuscan Hills (2016) to Ghosts of the Past (2018). Vichi has also edited crime anthologies.

Marcus Kliewer is a Canadian horror writer with two books to his name: We Used to Live Here (2024) and The Caretaker (2026). The debut took the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize in 2026, and horror, thriller, mystery and the paranormal are the catalogued subjects. Kliewer comes from Kelowna, British Columbia, moved to Vancouver after high school, and worked in film as crew and as a stop-motion animator, editing Amanda Strong's 2018 short Biidaaban (The Dawn Comes) and directing the 2020 animated short lot.

Marcus Sakey

14 books• 3 series

Marcus Sakey is an American author and the host of the Travel Channel show Hidden City. 14 catalogued books run from The Blade Itself (2007) to Afterlife (2017). The Brilliance Saga is the one series; the rest are standalone novels and short fiction, among them Good People (2008), The Amateurs (2009) and The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes (2011). Criminals, ex-convicts, kidnapping and a dystopian strand fill the subjects, and the catalogue is likely complete.

Maren Moore has 24 books catalogued from Jingle Wars (2020) to The Casanova Complex (2026). The Moore series are Totally Pucked, Hellcats Hockey, Orleans University, Strawberry Hollow, Hollyridge and Mistletoe Falls. Change on the Fly, Sincerely, The Puck Bunny and The Mistletoe Bet date from 2021, and The Ex Equation and The Final Score from 2022.

Maren Stoffels has 7 catalogued books, published from 2020 to 2026. Escape Room and Fright Night came out in 2020, Room Service in 2021, Stranger Danger in 2023, No Escape in 2024 and Deep Water in 2025, and Mystery Guest (2026) is the newest. Children's fiction is the listed subject.

Margaret Atwood

89 books• 8 series

Margaret Atwood, born November 18, 1939, is a Canadian novelist, poet, literary critic and inventor. The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel from 1985, is the best-known Atwood work. Atwood's output includes 18 poetry books, 18 novels, 11 non-fiction books, nine short fiction collections, eight children's books and two graphic novels. The catalogue opens with The Circle Game (1964) and runs to Book of Lives (2025), with The Edible Woman (1969) and Surfacing (1972) along the way. Series include MaddAddam, Handmaid's Tale and Angel Catbird. Awards include two Booker Prizes, the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Franz Kafka Prize and the Order of Canada.

Margaret Brownley writes historical and Christian romance, with frontier and pioneer life, ranch life, women detectives and Texas among the recorded subjects. The catalogue holds 41 books from Full Circle (1987) to Dog Days of Summer Bride (2020), and several early titles were published under the names Megan Brownley and Kate Damon. Series include A Rocky Creek Romance, the Brides of Last Chance Ranch, the Undercover Ladies, Two-Time Texas and the Haywire Brides. Brownley, born on 30 July, wrote for magazines before books, with more than 400 articles in print.

Margaret Coel's series include Wind River Reservation, Arapaho Ten Commandments and Catherine McLeod, alongside non-fiction and short stories. Subjects name Vicky Holden and John O'Malley as characters and cover Arapaho Indians, women lawyers, clergy and Wyoming. The 34 catalogued books run from Chief Left Hand (1981) to Man Found Dead in Park (2017). The Eagle Catcher (1995), The Ghost Walker (1996) and The Dream Stalker (1997) are among the titles. The catalogue is listed as likely complete.

Christian romance and romantic suspense make up the catalogue of Margaret Daley, and the subject tags also mark inspirational fiction and the Love Inspired line. The catalogue holds 110 books from A Matter of Pride (1983) to Into the Danger (2021). Family for Keeps, Sadie's Hero and The Power of Love all appeared in 2002, and Gold in the Fire (2004) and Light in the Storm (2005) came soon after. Series include Strong Women, Extraordinary Situations; Fostered by Love; Guardians Inc.; Lone Star Justice; Men of the Texas Rangers; Caring Canines; Alaskan Search and Rescue; and Heart of the Amazon. Widows, bodyguards and missing persons recur in the tags.

Margaret Drabble

39 books• 3 series

Dame Margaret Drabble, Lady Holroyd (born 5 June 1939), is an English novelist, biographer and short story writer. The Millstone (1965) won the John Llewellyn Rhys Memorial Prize, and Jerusalem the Golden (1967) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Drabble received the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1973 and an honour from the University of Cambridge in 2006. The catalogue counts 39 books from Summer Bird Cage (1963) to Margaret Drabble on the Romantics (2025), with Radiant Way a series.

Margaret Frazer was the pen name of Gail Lynn Brown (26 November 1946 to 4 February 2013), an American writer of more than twenty historical mystery novels plus short stories. The name was first shared with Mary Monica Pulver Kuhfeld for The Novice's Tale (1992), which introduced the Benedictine nun Dame Frevisse, and the partnership lasted through The Murderer's Tale (1996), the sixth Frevisse book. From The Prioress' Tale (1997), an Edgar Award nominee, Gail Brown wrote as Margaret Frazer alone. The catalogue lists 38 books up to Circle of Witches (2012), with Joliffe the Player also among the characters and subjects including nuns, women sleuths and England.

Margaret George

9 books• 1 series

Margaret George, born in 1943, is an American historical novelist who writes epic fictional biographies, researched in detail and long in the telling, the median catalogued book runs to 630 pages. Rulers and figures out of history and scripture are the subjects: Henry VIII, Mary Queen of Scots, Mary Magdalene, Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, Elizabeth I and Nero. Nine books are catalogued, from The Autobiography of Henry VIII (1986) to Emperor Nero: The Splendour Before The Dark (2019). Several reached the New York Times bestseller list, the Cleopatra novel became an Emmy-nominated ABC miniseries in 1999, and the novels have been published in 21 languages.

Margaret Lashley writes cozy mysteries with women sleuths at the centre. The catalogue runs to 33 books published between 2017 and 2026, opening with Glad One: Crazy is a Relative Term and reaching Almost a Birdbrain Idea. The Val Fremden Mysteries and A Val Fremden Humorous Mystery form the longest run, with the Freaky Florida Mystery Adventures, the Doreen Diller Mystery books and Mind's Eye Investigations alongside them. Lashley continues to publish.

Margaret Loudon writes cosy mysteries in two series. A Sweet Nothings Lingerie Mystery came first, with Murder Unmentionable (2012), Laced with Poison (2013) and A Fatal Slip (2014); the Open Book Mysteries followed, running from Murder in the Margins (2020) through A Fatal Footnote (2021) and Peril on the Page (2022) to A Deadly Dedication (2023). Seven titles are catalogued in all.

Margaret Mallory writes historical romance. Eleven books are catalogued between 2009 and 2018, opening with Knight of Desire (2009) and closing with Kidnapped by a Rogue (2018). Knight of Pleasure (2009) and Knight of Passion (2010) follow the first, then The Guardian (2011), The Sinner (2011), The Warrior (2012) and The Chieftain (2013), before Captured by a Laird (2014) and Claimed by a Highlander (2016). Douglas Legacy is the one series catalogued, and nothing new has appeared since 2018.

Margaret Maron

43 books• 6 series

Two detective series carry Margaret Maron's mysteries: Judge Deborah Knott, a woman on the bench, and Sigrid Harald, a police officer. One Coffee With (1981) opens the catalogue, followed by Death of a Butterfly, Bloody Kin and The Right Jack. Forty-three books reach Take Out in 2017, and the catalogue is listed as complete.

Margaret Mayhew writes historical fiction and romance, with the Second World War as her main period: Bluebirds (1993) follows four women in wartime, and The Crew (1997) and the Royal Air Force supply further material. The Village Mysteries series turns to crime in English village settings. Mayhew was born in London within the sound of Bow Bell, and her earliest memories are of the German Blitz; her father was a pioneering heart surgeon at Guy's Hospital and her mother was French. Educated at Malvern Girls' College and in Lausanne, Mayhew began writing in her mid-thirties and published The Master of Aysgarth in 1976. The catalogue holds 27 titles through 2020.

Margaret Millar wrote mystery and suspense, 27 books catalogued from The Invisible Worm (1941) to The Couple Next Door, dated 2004. Millar was Canadian-American, born in Ontario in 1915 and dead in 1994, and was married to Kenneth Millar, who wrote as Ross Macdonald. Three series run through the work: Paul Prye, Inspector Sands and the lawyer Tom Aragon. Santa Barbara, where the Millars lived for decades, appears in later novels under the invented names San Felice and Santa Felicia. Psychological suspense, murder, mentally ill women and family relationships are the recurring subjects, with The Iron Gates (1945) and Do Evil in Return (1950) early in the run.

The Margaret Mitchell titles catalogued here are collections assembled long after Mitchell's lifetime: letters, girlhood writings and journalism rather than novels. Gone with the Wind Letters (1987) leads, followed by Dynamo Going to Waste: Letters to Allen Edee (1989), Lost Laysen (1996), Before Scarlett: Girlhood Writings (2000), Margaret Mitchell, Reporter (2000) and I Want to Be Famous (2002). Six books are catalogued in all, and authorship, correspondence and the Civil War in Georgia are the recurring subjects.

Police dogs and Colorado ground the Timber Creek K-9 Mysteries, Margaret Mizushima's single series, where murder and investigation supply the plots and a woman sleuth stands at the centre. Eleven catalogued books run from Killing Trail (2015) through Burning Ridge (2018), Standing Dead (2023) and Dying Cry (2025) to Fighting Edge in 2026.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

55 books• 12 series

Margaret Peterson Haddix, born April 9, 1964, is an American writer best known for two children's series: Shadow Children (1998-2006) and The Missing (2008-2015). She also wrote the tenth book of The 39 Clues, a series with multiple authors. The catalogue lists 55 of her books from Running Out of Time (1995) to Moonleapers (2025), including Among the Hidden (1998), Just Ella (1999) and Turnabout (2000). Other series listings include Palace Chronicles, Children of Exile, Greystone Secrets, Mysteries of Trash and Treasure and Under Their Skin. Subjects include time travel, science fiction, brothers and sisters, and schools.

Margaret Rogerson has 5 books in the catalogue. An Enchantment of Ravens (2017) came first, then Sorcery of Thorns (2019), Vespertine (2021) and Mysteries of Thorn Manor (2023), with Knight Eternal scheduled for 2027. Sorcery of Thorns is the one series credited to Rogerson. Subjects recorded across the books include fantasy fiction, magic, fairies, princes, apprentices, libraries, painters and artists, and the titles are filed as children's fiction.

Margaret Truman

41 books• 1 series

Capital Crimes, a mystery series set in Washington, D.C., is the fiction Margaret Truman is listed for. Mac Smith, a law teacher, and Annabel Reed-Smith, an art dealer, recur through novels including Murder in the White House (1980), Murder on Capitol Hill (1981) and Murder in the Supreme Court (1982). The listing also holds biography, among it Harry S. Truman (1973), and runs to 41 entries ending at Murder at the CDC (2022).

Margaret Weis

109 books• 34 series

Margaret Edith Weis, born March 16, 1948, is an American fantasy and science fiction author who, with Tracy Hickman at TSR, Inc., created the Dragonlance role-playing game world. Weis founded Sovereign Press and Margaret Weis Productions, which license television and film franchises for role-playing games. Pyramid magazine named Weis one of The Millennium's Most Influential Persons in 1999, and the Origins Hall of Fame inducted Weis in 2002. Dragons of Autumn Twilight (1984) is among the catalogued titles, and series include Death Gate Cycle, Darksword and Star Of The Guardians.

Margaret Wise Brown (May 23, 1910 - November 13, 1952) was an American writer of children's books, among them The Runaway Bunny (1942) and Goodnight Moon (1947), both with illustrations by Clement Hurd. Brown has been called the laureate of the nursery. Brown also published as Golden MacDonald for Doubleday, as Timothy Hay for Harper & Brothers, and, with Edith Thacher Hurd, as Juniper Sage for William R. Scott. The catalogue lists 166 books, opening with When the Wind Blew (1937), then I Like Bugs and The Steam Roller (1938). Stories in rhyme, rabbits, bedtime and sound recur in the subjects.

Margaret Yorke (1924–2012) wrote English crime fiction across five decades. 44 books are catalogued under the name, from Summer Flight (1957) to an edition of Cause for Concern dated 2014. Patrick Grant, an Oxford don who investigates, is her one recurring detective; the rest of the catalogue is standalone suspense about criminals, families and murder in England. Yorke was born Margaret Beda Larminie and wrote under the Yorke name throughout her career.

Margery Allingham (20 May 1904 – 30 June 1966) was an English crime novelist of the Golden Age of Detective Fiction, counted with Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers and Ngaio Marsh as one of four Queens of Crime. Albert Campion, a gentleman sleuth, is Allingham's most remembered creation; Campion made a first appearance in The Crime at Black Dudley (1929) and went on to anchor 18 novels and many short stories. Early readers took Campion for a parody of Sayers's Lord Peter Wimsey. The catalogue begins with Blackkerchief Dick (1923) and includes Mystery Mile (1930), Police at the Funeral (1931) and Death of a Ghost (1934), with some titles written as Maxwell March.

Margery Sharp was an English writer who produced 25 novels for adults, two mysteries, four plays, 14 children's novels and many short stories. The Rescuers is her best known work, a children's sequence about a heroic mouse named Miss Bianca and her partner Bernard, filmed by Walt Disney Productions in 1977 and given a sequel in 1990. Sharp's catalogue holds 40 titles, from Rhododendron Pie (1930) through The Nutmeg Tree (1937) and Cluny Brown (1944) to Bernard Into Battle (1978).

Margot Douaihy writes mysteries and poetry. Six books are catalogued. Girls Like You (2015) is a poetry collection and was a finalist for a Lambda Literary Award; Scranton Lace (2018) and Bandit/Queen (2022) follow, with American poetry among the subject headings. The Sister Holiday Mysteries come next, in Scorched Grace (2023), Blessed Water (2024) and Divine Ruin (2026), and have been named among the Best Crime Novels of the Year by the New York Times and other publications.

Marguerite Henry (born Marguerite Breithaupt, 13 April 1902 to 26 November 1997) was an American children's author who wrote fifty-nine books drawn from true stories of horses and other animals. King of the Wind, a 1948 horse book, won Henry the Newbery Medal, and two other Henry books were runners-up. Misty of Chincoteague (1947), one of those runners-up, led to several related titles and the 1961 film Misty. The catalogue lists 34 Henry books from Birds at Home (1942) to Brown Sunshine of Sawdust Valley (1996), including Justin Morgan Had a Horse (1945). Subjects include ponies, the Chincoteague pony and horse racing.

Mari Hannah writes police procedurals set in England. DCI Kate Daniels is her recurring investigator, and Stone & Oliver and Matthew Ryan are her other series. Sixteen books are catalogued between 2010 and 2025, opening with The Murder Wall (2010) and running through Settled Blood (2012), Deadly Deceit (2013), Killing for Keeps (2014), The Silent Room (2015), Gallows Drop (2016), The Insider (2018), The Lost (2018) and The Death Messenger (2019) to Her Sister's Killer (2025). Murder investigation, missing persons, conspiracy and Special Branch supply the subject matter, at a median of 416 pages.

Mari Jungstedt, born in Stockholm in 1962, is a Swedish crime novelist and journalist. The Anders Knutas series began with Unseen (2003) and set its first five books on the island of Gotland, pairing a detective superintendent with the journalist Johan Berg. Later series move south, in the Canary Island books and Malagasviten. Twenty-one titles are catalogued through 2024, several translated into English by Tiina Nunnally and two filmed for Swedish television. Jungstedt reported for Swedish public radio and television before writing fiction.

Maria Adolfsson writes mystery fiction in the Doggerland series. Eight books are catalogued between 2018 and 2024. Fatal Isles (2018) opens the run, with Doggerland Deception (2021), Wild Shores (2022) and Cruel Tides (2023) following. The catalogue also lists Spring eller do (2021), Fallvind (2022), Nodvandigt ont (2023) and Tiga som muren (2024). The books are indexed under Germanic literature, and the series is ongoing.

Nat Enough is Maria Scrivan's series for readers in grades 3 to 5, and every title in it plays on the name: Nat Enough and Forget Me Nat in 2020, Absolutely Nat in 2021, Nat for Nothing in 2023, All is Nat Lost in 2024, Nat a Chance in 2025 and Nat Again in 2026. Dogi The Yogi, published in 2008, stands apart as the earliest of the eight catalogued books.

Maria Semple

4 books

Maria Semple is an American novelist and screenwriter whose television credits take in Beverly Hills, 90210, Mad About You, Arrested Development and Saturday Night Live. Four novels are catalogued: This One Is Mine (2008), Where'd You Go, Bernadette (2012), Today Will Be Different (2016) and Go Gentle (2026). An Alex Award came to Semple in 2013. Family life, mothers and daughters, missing persons and humour set in Seattle and Hollywood are the recurring subjects, and roughly six years separate one novel from the next.

Maria V. Snyder writes fantasy and science fiction. The Study series is Snyder's best known work, opening with Poison Study (2005) and continuing through Magic Study (2006), Fire Study (2008) and Power Study (2008); the Glass books follow with Storm Glass and Sea Glass (2009) and Spy Glass (2010). The catalogue also holds the Chronicles of Ixia, Avry of Kazan, Sentinels of the Galaxy, the Archives of the Invisible Sword and Valek's Adventures. Magic, healers, magicians and teenage girls are recurring subjects. Snyder's 29 books reach The Study of Storms and Magic (2025).

Mariah Fredericks writes in two modes. The Jane Prescott mysteries are historical crime set in 1910s New York, while the earlier books, among them The True Meaning of Cleavage (2003), Head Games (2004) and the In the Cards series, are children's and teen fiction about high school, friendship and tarot. Fredericks was born and raised in New York City, studied history at Vassar College, and spent years as head copywriter at the Book-of-the-Month Club. Seventeen catalogued books reach The Girl in the Green Dress in 2025.

Mariah Stewart writes women's fiction and romantic suspense. The Chesapeake Diaries, Wyndham Beach, the Hudson Sisters, Mercy Street, Enright and Last are the series in a catalogue of 50 titles, which opens in 1995 with Moments in Time and reaches Wake-Up Calls (2026). Maryland settings, federal investigators, serial murders and family life fill the subject tags.

Marian Babson was the pen name of Ruth Marian Stenstreem (1929–2017), an American mystery writer born in Salem, Massachusetts, who spent most of her life in London. The novels are short, at a median of 188 pages across 53 catalogued books, and cats turn up in many of them; the publisher's tagline for the work was Murder Most British. The Trixie Dolan & Evangeline Sinclair mysteries pair two actresses as sleuths, with the Perkins & Tate books alongside. Babson took the Crime Writers' Association Dagger in the Library in 1996 and an Agatha Award.

Marian Keyes

26 books• 5 series

Marian Keyes, born 10 September 1963, is an Irish novelist and radio presenter known for popular fiction. Watermelon, Lucy Sullivan Is Getting Married, Rachel's Holiday, Last Chance Saloon, Anybody Out There and This Charming Man take on alcoholism, depression, addiction, cancer, bereavement and domestic violence with humour. Keyes has sold more than 35 million copies in 33 languages. The catalogue lists 26 books, from Watermelon (1995) to My Favourite Mistake (2024), with the Walsh Family as the recurring series. Dublin, female friendship and single women are among the tagged subjects.

Mariana Zapata writes slow-burn contemporary romance, much of it around sport. Lingus (2012) is the earliest catalogued title, followed by Kulti (2015), The Wall of Winnipeg and Me (2016), Wait for It (2016) and From Lukov with Love (2018). Every Zapata book stands alone. Fourteen titles run to The Things We Water in 2025, and the books are long, 535 pages at the median.